A tree victory or three - Oregon and Arizona - proposed timber sales delayed and withdrawn - Brief Article

Sierra, July-August, 2002

If you think that environmental activism is one long slog, here's a trio of recent forest victories to inspire you. This spring, the Oregon Chapter and five other environmental groups successfully delayed a proposed timber sale in Deschutes National Forest (above) that would have removed about 17 million board feet of timber from nearly 8,000 acres.

The chapter scored another hit in April when the U.S. Forest Service agreed to cancel the Eagle Creek timber sale on Mt. Hood National Forest, in an area that provides both recreation and water supplies to urban Oregonians. (Now the acreage can be considered for wilderness designation.) And, thanks to Grand Canyon Chapter activists in Arizona, Kaibab National Forest managers have withdrawn a proposed timber sale that would have logged nearly 1,600 truckloads of trees from one of the most extensive tracts of old-growth ponderosa pine remaining in the Southwest--all within three miles of Grand Canyon National Park.